13 January 2013: Ukrainian Malanka

13Jan

Dancing Queen single from ABBA (1976) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Today I am grateful to my friends for organising and sharing with me a wonderful Ukrainian festival Malanka. It is a seasonal festival featuring a ritual play about a she-goat who dies and then is resurrected, as in an Afro-Brazilian festival Bumba-meu-boi. We sang traditional Ukrainian songs, and then switched to Hotel California and Dancing Queen. Yeah! INternational friendship!